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quantities of fine linen, tapeftry, leather, peltry, wax, madder, tallow, 

 dried flefh, and much fait fifh, &c. And France fends back to Ant- 

 werp by fea, fait of Brouage to the value of 180,000 crowns ; 40,000 

 bales of fine woad of Tholoufe, which at 7^ crowns per bale, amounts 

 to 300,000 crowns ; canvas, and other ftrong linen of Bretagne and 

 Normandy, in immenfe quantities ; about 40,000 tons of excellent 

 red and white wines, at about 25 crowns per ton ; faffron, fyrup of 

 fugar, turpentine, pitch, paper of all kinds to a great value, primes, 

 Brafil wood *. By land alfo, France fends many fine and curious 

 things in gilding (d'orures), fome very fine cloths of Paris, Rouen, 

 Tours, and Champagne, threads of Lyons, &c. which are highly 

 prized, excellent verdigreafe of Montpelier ; and, laflly, many forts of 

 merceries to a great value f . 



* To England, Antwerp fends jewels and pretious fiones, filver bul- 

 lion, quickfilver, wrought filks, cloth of gold and filver, gold and fil- 

 ver thread, camblets, grograms, fpices, drugs, fugar, cotton, cummin, 

 galls, linens fine and coarl'e, ferges, demy-oftades J, tapefiry, madder, 

 hops in great quantities, glafs, fait fifh, metallic and other merceries 

 of all forts to a great value ; arms of all kinds, ammunition for war, 

 and houfehold furniture. From England, Antwerp receives vafl: 

 quantities of fine and coarfe draperies, fringes, and other things of 

 that kind, to a great value ; the finest wool, excellent faftron in fmali 

 quantities ; a great quantity of lead and tin ; flieep and rabbit fkins 

 without number, and various other forts of fine peltry and leather ; 

 beer, cheefe, and other forts of provifions in great quantities ; alfo 

 Malmfey wines, which the Englilh import from Candia. 



' To Scotland, Antwerp fends but little, as that country is chiefly 

 fupplied from England and France. Antwerp, however, fends thither 

 fome fpicery, fugars, madder, wrought filks, camblets, ferges, linen 

 and mercery : And Scotland fends to Antwerp vafi: quantities of pel- 

 ti-y of many kinds, leather, wool, indifferent cloth, fine large pearls, 

 though not of quite fo good a water as the oriental ones. 



' To Ireland, Antwerp fends much the fame commodities and quan- 

 tities as to Scotland. And Antwerp takes from Ireland, fkins and 

 leather of divers forts, fome low-priced cloths, and other grofs things 

 of little value. 



' To Spain, Antwerp fends copper, brafs, and latten, wrought and 

 unwrought ; tin, lead, much woollen cloth of various kinds made in 

 the Netherlands, as alfo fome made in England ; ferges of all prices ; 

 oftades and demy-oflades, tapeflry,fine and coa.fe linens to a greatva- 



* The French at this tiinc had a fettlenient in Brafil. 



f The filk nianufafture of France, now in its infancy, afforded as yet notiiing for ixpjrtation. 

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